Have you, or anyone else seen a book called: “Desperate Sons”, about the formation of the “Sons of Liberty”? I don’t recall the author right now. But one of my daughters gave me a “Nook” for Christmas by Barnes and Noble, and a gift card. I bought that book, for the Nook (a pun), and so far it’s very eye-opening!
One of the beginning chapters talks about how when they imposed the “Stamp Act” with a “Stamp Tax”, there was all kinds of hell for the people trying to implement it! One guy who was said to have accepted the job in one area, was threatened with death and destruction to him, his family, and his property by a crowd of colonists who were ‘protesting’ it! The Occupy movement had nothing on this crowd! They ransacked his house, but thankfully never found him or his family. And they say the modern-day “Tea Party” are rough and(potentially)violent? Huh!!